Garment-protector.



L. COMINGORE.

GARMENT PROTECTOR.

APPLlcATloN mep MAY 26. 1913.

vPatented June 1, 1915.

LORA COMINGORE, 0F AN-DERSON, INDIANA.

i GARMENT-PROTECTOR.

Lian-cao.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 1, 1915..

Application inea May 26, 191s. serial No. rcaeia.

To yall Iwhom it 'mag/7001106111@ Be it known that I, LoRA CoMINGoRE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Anderson, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Garment-Protector, of which the following is a sspecication.

rIhe object of my invention is to produce a device which will serve as a protection for a garment and of such character that it can at times be used conveniently as a protector for a garment which is currently in use and at other times can be used as a mothproof protector for garments stored away for a season.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1y is a perspective view of the device in7 extended, initial receiving, condition; Fig. 2 a perspective view of the device in the condition in which it isuseful as a protector for garments currently in use; Fig. 3 a similar view showing the device in storage condition; Fig. 4 is a sectional View, on line 4-4 of Fig. 1, illustrating the construction of the fold-retaining means; Fig. 5 is a section showing the initial edge-fold; and Fig. 6 is a section showing the inal edge-fold.

In the drawings 10 indicates a sheet of suitable material `and size folded primarily alon the medial fold line 11. The sheet 10 shou d preferably be of dust-proof and moth-repellent material and for this purpose I find it convenient to use paper which has been properly treated with some mothrepellent substance. One section of ,the sheet 10, at its three free edges, is -provided lwith a plurality of fold-retaining members 12, which when folded on themselves or otherwise bentk remain so folded or bent;

these fold-retaining members are preferably strips of flexible non-resilient metal laid at right angles to the adjacent edge of the sheet 10 and covered by a fabric strip 13VVYV whichffthus'forms a pocket for the fold-retaining strip 12. At its upper edge, at two One section of the sheet 10 at a convenient point is ma-de transparent as indicated at :20

in any. well known manner, either byvtreating the body of the sheet or by making a sight opening therethrough and covering the same with a transparent sheet.

In u se the sheet 10 may be spread out flat, as indicated in Fig. 1, and a garment, in which has been previously inserted an ordinary garment hanger, is indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, may be accurately laid with the hook 21 of the garment-hanger overlying and projecting beyond the tongue 15. With the sheet 10 extended the garment may be carefully and accurately laid so as to avoid undesirable creasing and the left hand section of the sheet then overlaid upon thegarment, the free edges of this portion being brought into registry with the free edges of the other portion and the tongue 15 of this portion overlying the projecting portion of the garment-hanger. Thereupon the upper edges of the two sections are folded over as indicated in Fig. 5 and again folded as indicated in Fig. 6, the strips 12 retaining the folds and thoroughly closing the upper edge of the protector against dust and moths. The corners 16 of the lower tongue 15 are then folded over the stemof the hanger and the corners 1G of the upper tongue 15 are then folded around the stem of the hanger outside of the tongue 15 whereupon wire 17 may be wrapped a few turns around the two tongues 15 and thus thoroughly close around the stem of the hanger. The device will then be in the condition shown in Fig. 2 where the bottom and one side of the protector remain open so that the garment may be readily slipped off the hanger and out of the protector, the device in this condition being very useful for the 'ordinary daily protection from dust ofgarments which are in current use. Whenever it is desired to store away the garment the edge and bottom of the protector are folded over in the manner already described, the folds taking place along the dotted lines 22 (Fig. 1).

At any time one or more of the folded edges of the structure may be unfolded and the operation above described repeated.V

I claim as my invention:

1. A garment protector comprising a sheet of suitable material foldable to bring one section overlying the other, fold-retain ing members carried by said sheet adjacent 1cti the free edges of one section thereof, whereby the free edges of the two sections may be folded together and retained in folded position, two cooperating edges on the two sections respectively having only certain parts which fold; leaving unfolded other parts which register when the two sections are folded together, thus forming an opening, a projecting tongue carried by each section of said sheet at the part left unfolded so that the two tongues register when the two sections are foldedv together, such projecting tongues having free corners foldable about a garment hanger stein projected from the interior of the protector, and a retaining wire carried by one section of the sheet adjacent the projecting tongue.

2. A garment protector comprising a sheet of suitable material foldable to bring one section overlying the other, fold-retaining members carried by said sheet adjacent the free edges of one section thereof, whereby the free edges of the two sections may be folded together and retained in folded position, two cooperating edges on the two sections respectively having only certain parts which fold, leaving unfolded other parts which register when the two sections are folded together, thus forming an opening, a projecting tongue carried by each section of said sheet at such unfolded part so that the two tongues register when the two sections are folded together, and such projecting tongues having free corners foldable about a garment hanger stem projected from the interior of the protector.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Anderson, Indiana,

this 23d day of May, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

- Mns. LORA COMINGORE.

Witnesses:

LAFE SWANK, J. E. VAN DEVENTER. 

